Re: Skype license

2007-08-12 Thread Mario Iseli
On Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 01:24:09AM +0200, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > On 11109 March 1977, ?ystein Gisn?s wrote: > > I got a request from a Skype employee who was eager to distribute > > Skype with Debian. I replied that the current license probably is not > > compatible with DFSG and promised to ask de

Re: Skype license

2007-08-12 Thread Ben Finney
Joerg Jaspert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 11109 March 1977, Øystein Gisnås wrote: > > I got a request from a Skype employee who was eager to distribute > > Skype with Debian. I replied that the current license probably is > > not compatible with DFSG and promised to ask debian-legal what has

Re: Skype license

2007-08-12 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Øystein Gisnås said: > I got a request from a Skype employee who was eager to distribute > Skype with Debian. I replied that the current license probably is not > compatible with DFSG and promised to ask debian-legal what has to be > done with Skype's license to make it

Re: Skype license

2007-08-12 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 11109 March 1977, Øystein Gisnås wrote: > I got a request from a Skype employee who was eager to distribute > Skype with Debian. I replied that the current license probably is not > compatible with DFSG and promised to ask debian-legal what has to be > done with Skype's license to make it distri

Re: Skype license

2007-08-12 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Aug 12, 2007 at 10:53:42PM +0200, Øystein Gisnås wrote: > I got a request from a Skype employee who was eager to distribute > Skype with Debian. I replied that the current license probably is not > compatible with DFSG Are you joking? http://www.skype.com/help/faq/technical.html:

Skype license

2007-08-12 Thread Øystein Gisnås
I got a request from a Skype employee who was eager to distribute Skype with Debian. I replied that the current license probably is not compatible with DFSG and promised to ask debian-legal what has to be done with Skype's license to make it distributable. In it's current form, I don't think Skype

Re: GFDL and cover texts

2007-08-12 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mardi 07 août 2007 à 10:48 -0500, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso a écrit : > But we can't modify the COPYING file in a source tarball, and that's > ok. Why isn't a cover text like "a GNU manual" also acceptable? IIRC, we also accepted invariant stuff in code comments. Cover texts are *functional* inv